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Professor John Moreland from the University of Sheffield introduces Wessex Archaeology's new excavations on the site of Sheffield Castle, along with the Sheffield Archaeology students digging there.
“It was clear to the dig team that these were not merely fallen ... The abatises were found in front of the medieval ...
The castle was built at the confluence of the Rivers Sheaf and Don – Sheffield gets its name from ... Ashley Tuck, the archaeologist leading the dig on behalf of Wessex Archaeology, looks ...
Four undergraduate students from the Department of Archaeology share their thoughts on their five-week placements at the Sheffield Castle dig site. Working on this project has given me a sense of what ...
The first surviving Civil War wooden stake defences to be found in the UK have been discovered by archaeologists in the moat of Sheffield's former castle. The stakes were stuck into the ground to ...
A section of the River Sheaf hidden underground for more than 100 years has been uncovered as part of work on the site of Sheffield's former castle. The stretch of river was covered over in 1917 ...